School of Business Gazette > June 2004

CIBER NEWS

CIBER Globalization Seminars

The Wisconsin CIBER will co-sponsor a two-day seminar series in June at the University of Memphis CIBER. Experts from the business and academic communities will participate. The Globalization Seminars are designed to help U.S. business faculty bring international context into the classroom and to expand teaching, research and grant writing skills. The seminars will address the following topics: international business and finance, global e-business, global supply chain management, and international management and marketing. Mason Carpenter, associate professor in Management and Human Resources, will teach the international management session. Please visit the CIBER Web site ( www.bus.wisc.edu/ciber) for complete event information.

Spring 2004 CIBER Grants Announced

Congratulations to the following individuals from the School of Business who were selected to receive CIBER support during the spring 2004 grants competition:

Yan Gong, Ph.D. student, Management and Human Resources. Gong received funding to attend the Annual Doctoral Workshop of International Entrepreneurship hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology CIBER in May 2004. The workshop provides insights and interactions with scholars in international entrepreneurship.

François Ortalo-Magné, associate professor, Real Estate, and Rod Matthews, senior lecturer, Real Estate, received funding to support eight MBA students’ attendance at Expo Real in Munich, Germany, in October 2004. Expo Real, the preeminent international commercial real estate exposition, allows UW-Madison students to interact with global real estate professionals.